Catherine Wiley
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Anna Catherine Wiley was an American artist active primarily in the early twentieth century. After training with the Art Students League of New York and receiving instruction from artists such as Lloy
Self-portrait, 1910s
Lady with Parasol (1915)
Portrait of Catharine Gaut Burton (ca. 1914)
Rocky Top, Tennessee
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Rocky Top is a city in Anderson and Campbell counties in the eastern part of the U.S. state of Tennessee, northwest of Knoxville. The population was 1,628 at the 2020 US Census. Most of the community
Catherine Wiley
…Art. In 1926, Wiley was institutionalized after suffering a mental breakdown, and never painted again. Wiley was born in Coal Creek, Tennessee (modern Rocky Top), the daughter of Edwin Floyd Wiley and Mary McAdoo Wiley. She was the granddaughter of prominent attorney and businessman, William Gibbs McAdoo, Sr…
Rocky Top City Hall
Child coal miners at Cross Mountain Mine near Coal Creek, 1910. Photo by Lewis Hine.